Policy Tool Interactions and the Adoption of State Renewable Portfolio Standards

Yi, Hongtao; Feiock, Richard C.

doi:10.1111/j.1541-1338.2012.00548.x

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“…Our focus is on another important factor: the role of ideology, which is frequently a strong or even the strongest predictor of attitudes and outcomes related to environmental issues. Ideology has been linked to the perception of threat to catastrophic change [14], attitudes toward government spending on environmental protection [15], and REEE policy adoption [11,[16][17][18].…”

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Red states, green laws: Ideology and renewable energy legislation in the United States

Hess

Quan

Brown

2016

Energy Research & Social Science

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a b s t r a c tWe develop a novel, mixed methods approach to examine the relationship between political ideology and support for renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) policies. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with state-government legislators in the U.S., we show that when legislators evaluate and justify their support for and opposition to different types of renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) policies, they distinguish bills based on frames that are related to ideological differences (e.g., tax decreases, government efficiency, regulation, mandates, government spending). In turn the qualitative distinctions among bills are associated with quantitative differences in levels of support and success for the policies. Using data from a longitudinal analysis of 188 major state-government laws passed from 2004 to 2014 and a cross-sectional set of 709 passed and unpassed laws from 2011 to 2012, we show that REEE policies configured as mandates (e.g., renewable portfolio standards) have consistently lower levels of support than for similar REEE policies configured as tax reductions, reduction of government waste by increasing building efficiency, authorization of local government action, and regulatory reduction. Thus, via both quantitative and qualitative analysis, we show that there are important ideology-associated differences in REEE policy that point to opportunities for more successful policy design.

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Red states, green laws: Ideology and renewable energy legislation in the United States

Hess

Quan

Brown

2016

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…There are always significant interactive effects among the policy goals, sectors and governments involved which also add to the complexity of policy design and the difficulties encountered in pursuing effective integration (Boonekamp, 2006;Del Río, 2010;Grabosky, 1995;LePlay & Thoyer, 2011;Yi & Feiock, 2012). This is because in many circumstances 'supplementary' or 'complimentary' tools are often required to control sideeffects or otherwise bolster the use of more 'primary' tools (Hou & Brewer, 2010;Tinbergen, 1952).…”

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Policy Integration and Multi-Level Governance: Dealing with the Vertical Dimension of Policy Mix Designs

Howlett

Vince

Rı́o

2017

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Multifaceted problems such as sustainable development typically involve complex arrangements of institutions and instruments and the subject of how best to design and operate such 'mixes', 'bundles' or 'portfolios' of policy tools is an ongoing issue in this area. One aspect of this question is that some mixes are more difficult to design and operate than others. The paper argues that, ceteris paribus, complex policy-making faces substantial risks of failure when horizontal or vertical dimensions of policy-making are not well integrated. The paper outlines a model of policy mix types which highlights the design problems associated with more complex arrangements and presents two case studies of similarly structured mixes in the areas of marine parks in Australia and coastal zone management in Europe-one a failure and the other a successful case of integration-to illustrate how such mixes can be better designed and managed more effectively.

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“…This new design orientation focuses attention on the construction of policy packages operating in complex multi-policy and multi-level design contexts which are expected to address multiple goals and objectives (del Rio & Howlett, 2013). It seeks to better describe the nature of the bundles or portfolios of tools which can be used to address policy problems and to help understand the interactive effects which occur when multiple tools are used over time (Doremus, 2003;Howlett, 2014b;Howlett, Mukherjee, & Woo, 2014;Jordan, Benson, Wurzel, & Zito, 2011;Jordan, Benson, Zito, & Wurzel, 2012;Yi & Feiock, 2012).…”

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Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types

Howlett

Mukherjee

2014

SSRN Journal

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Public policies are the result of efforts made by governments to alter aspects of behaviour-both that of their own agents and of society at large-in order to carry out some end or purpose. They are comprised of arrangements of policy goals and policy means matched through some decision-making process. These policy-making efforts can be more, or less, systematic in attempting to match ends and means in a logical fashion or can result from much less systematic processes. "Policy design" implies a knowledge-based process in which the choice of means or mechanisms through which policy goals are given effect follows a logical process of inference from known or learned relationships between means and outcomes. This includes both design in which means are selected in accordance with experience and knowledge and that in which principles and relationships are incorrectly or only partially articulated or understood. Policy decisions can be careful and deliberate in attempting to best resolve a problem or can be highly contingent and driven by situational logics. Decisions stemming from bargaining or opportunism can also be distinguished from those which result from careful analysis and assessment. This article considers both modes and formulates a spectrum of policy formulation types between "design" and "non-design" which helps clarify the nature of each type and the likelihood of each unfolding.

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Policy Tool Interactions and the Adoption of State Renewable Portfolio Standards

Cited by 106 publications

References 36 publications

Red states, green laws: Ideology and renewable energy legislation in the United States

Red states, green laws: Ideology and renewable energy legislation in the United States

Policy Integration and Multi-Level Governance: Dealing with the Vertical Dimension of Policy Mix Designs

Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types

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